By-election after Hackney Labour councillor resigns
Julia Gregory Local Democracy Reporting Service
Hackney Councillor Tom Dewey has stood down - Credit: Hackney Council
Having just had an election, voters will be going to the polls again after the resignation of a newly elected Labour councillor.
Tom Dewey became a councillor for De Beauvoir ward earlier this month after years of campaigning for the party in Hackney.
His resignation the week before the first full council meeting of the new council term means 6,634 De Beauvoir voters will have the chance to go to the polls again in a by-election.
Mr Dewey previously worked for Hackney Council as an adviser working with the Cabinet and Mayor and also served as election agent for Hackney South and Shoreditch MP, Meg Hillier.
His “professional expertise is in housing and planning”, according to Hackney Labour party’s website.
It added: “He wants to bring new ideas to help build the high-quality affordable homes we need for all our residents and improve the council homes which need investment, continue to fight for safe and beautiful streets which work for people, and fight for better standards for those in the private rented sector.”
Hackney Labour party said it could not comment today and Mr Dewey has also been contacted for comment.
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He won 1,102 votes and was elected alongside Labour councillor Polly Billington (1,400 votes) in the May 5 local elections.
The turnout was 33.36 per cent.
The Green Party candidate Heather Finlay won 538 votes, with the Liberal Democrat, John Hodgson, gaining 302 votes. Nicholas Lee, who also stood for the Greens, won 288 votes and the Independent Network’s Samantha May had 205 votes.
Mr Dewey’s resignation means Labour now has 49 seats, with the Conservatives holding five seats, and the Greens two.
